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this document, which you can get at the archive does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy. it does not talk about regime types. it doesn't talk about radical islam. as has been said access to persian gulf oil to national interests. hostages in iran destroyed ericsson david, that's reason enough to be wary of anything more. this context matters for understand why spread american what it should do more in response to iraq's invasion for hussein did not threaten us and mention it for the long-range of oil. moreover, the middle east is not an appealing place for those in american politics were short and long-term history. take james baker who had the spine of vice presidents for decades -- for years, but more importantly among the closest friends for decades. he was secretary of state and upon hearing the news contemplating that getting back to washington. i know you're aware of the fact that this has all the ingredients that is brought down three of the last five presidents, and hostage crisis, bodybag and a full-fledged economic recession caused a $40 oil, end quot
this document, which you can get at the archive does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy. it does not talk about regime types. it doesn't talk about radical islam. as has been said access to persian gulf oil to national interests. hostages in iran destroyed ericsson david, that's reason enough to be wary of anything more. this context matters for understand why spread american what it should do more in response to iraq's invasion for hussein did not threaten us and mention...
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this document does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy it is said talked-about regime types or radical islam instead accidents -- access to persian gulf will and is vital to national security interest. period. and this context matters to do more with hussain did not threaten the destruction of oil for those in american politics with a long-term history. at this point* advised presidents for years the more closest friends and upon hearing this news contemplating give back to washington and told the president, pulled him into the office and close the door and said "i know you're aware of the fact this has all the ingredients that has brought down three of the last five presidents, hostage crisis, by the banks and a full-fledged economic recession caused by $40 oil quote. it was hardly embraced across the board at the same time the congressional opposition it was conducted at of the true sense of concern. the senate majority leader the risk of active american intervention was great they include the and known number of casualties of greatly disrupted oil supply wide
this document does not use the word freedom, does not use the word democracy it is said talked-about regime types or radical islam instead accidents -- access to persian gulf will and is vital to national security interest. period. and this context matters to do more with hussain did not threaten the destruction of oil for those in american politics with a long-term history. at this point* advised presidents for years the more closest friends and upon hearing this news contemplating give back...
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their argumented made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases as tax cuts pay for themselves, will we'll be welcomed as libattors, climb change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work, were repeated over and over again republican arguments seem as incomprehensible to democrats were as much misguided to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information we took every day from our constituents and the economists we consulted. news speed media preoccupation with lack of civility missed the point. i traveled withcongressional members to afghan and enjoyed they're company. we worked out together in the house gym. still more socializing with each other would not have breached khasm. congress is crippled from making bipartisan, strategic, public policy decisions. this is our greatest institutional weakness and defies simplistic cures. congress today is deeply divided because to each side, the opinions of the other make no sense. and, therefore, cannot be honestly held. interest gr
their argumented made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases as tax cuts pay for themselves, will we'll be welcomed as libattors, climb change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work, were repeated over and over again republican arguments seem as incomprehensible to democrats were as much misguided to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information we took every day from our constituents and the economists we consulted. news speed media...
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if we were in some other court where you could use conspiracy conspiracy would be a useful mechanism. have you considered whether it using the military tribunals, a dichotomize choice, military tribunals, we better off building article i courts that would have been tailor-made to do this job, stands by article iii judges on t catch service and could build a system that could have done this. we are 12 years into the process and haven't made much progress. we have been to the supreme court three times but nothing like the actual prosecution of significant numbers of people seems to be happening. >> those are great questions. let me first address the conspiracy point. early on after the u.s. started taking prisoners and getting them from various means, directly capturing them or getting them turned over by allies or a bounty or what have you, the question arose about how to prosecute them and the lack of evidence against them force committing specific acts was a problem and it was discussed in the justice department to make membership in al qaeda or the taliban itself a crime. but that w
if we were in some other court where you could use conspiracy conspiracy would be a useful mechanism. have you considered whether it using the military tribunals, a dichotomize choice, military tribunals, we better off building article i courts that would have been tailor-made to do this job, stands by article iii judges on t catch service and could build a system that could have done this. we are 12 years into the process and haven't made much progress. we have been to the supreme court three...
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being in a bookstore on a friday night people, okay so all of us really, all of us. i want to say the most important thing of all and it will be the most important thing i say tonight is thank you. everything i say after that we'll be will be straight downhill and i will tell you some of this is a big thank yous to the end. but we are here to talk about is the "the fifth assassin." people say what you where do you get your ideas for the book? i will tell you about this. nobody gets crazier e-mailed to me. the last time i was asked at the store for the inner circle someone brought me the holy grail. is that guy here? i have to ask first. he's not here? then let's talk about him because here's what happened. i promise you this is true. there was standing right of there and he comes up to me earlier and he is like red, do you want to see the holy grail? he had the crazy eyes going back and forth and i'm like you brought the holy grail all the way to barnes & noble how do i not say yes? in that i'll he takes out the holy grail. he pulls it out the holy grail. and he says
being in a bookstore on a friday night people, okay so all of us really, all of us. i want to say the most important thing of all and it will be the most important thing i say tonight is thank you. everything i say after that we'll be will be straight downhill and i will tell you some of this is a big thank yous to the end. but we are here to talk about is the "the fifth assassin." people say what you where do you get your ideas for the book? i will tell you about this. nobody gets...
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never to join us on stage. ambassador graduated from texas a&m university in 1969. >> hoo-ha. >> he's a career foreign service officer at the time of desert shield and desert storm. he was deputy chief of mission in romania wher where he receive state department's distinguished honor award for leadership of the embassy during -- [inaudible] spandex i'd like to ask lieutenant general randy house to join us. general howe's graduate from texas a&m university in 1967. >> hoo-ha. >> and received regular army commission and after. he is commit at every level in peace and war from platoon leader the deputy commander of u.s. pacific command. during desert shield, desert storm, he commanded the 22nd brigade like jack brigade and the first calvary division. lieutenant general house brigade execute the coalition plan against saddam hussein's army making multiple bloody incursions, prior to the start of the ground operations. these actions to see the iraqis into putting the coalition would attack from the south in the vici
never to join us on stage. ambassador graduated from texas a&m university in 1969. >> hoo-ha. >> he's a career foreign service officer at the time of desert shield and desert storm. he was deputy chief of mission in romania wher where he receive state department's distinguished honor award for leadership of the embassy during -- [inaudible] spandex i'd like to ask lieutenant general randy house to join us. general howe's graduate from texas a&m university in 1967. >>...
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bush and we are fortunate to be the school that makes us a&m. [applause] >>> book tv is on the road in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we are interviewing some professors who also happened to the authors and we want to introduce you to the dean of the university pennsylvania school of social policy and practice. this is richard on your screen. one of his books, his most recent is called "the third fly on government programs don't work and a blueprint for change." and doctor i'm here from the government and i am here to help you is that not true? >> not true. >> why not? >> because most government social programs, which is designed to help people don't actually help people and in some instances it is a little more than i hate saying this about viet do good of full employment act and lots of people would like to help but at the end of the day if you look at whether the needle has been moved and people have been held by substantial government programs and substantial amounts of money, the bottomline is very rarely are people hel
bush and we are fortunate to be the school that makes us a&m. [applause] >>> book tv is on the road in philadelphia at the university of pennsylvania, and we are interviewing some professors who also happened to the authors and we want to introduce you to the dean of the university pennsylvania school of social policy and practice. this is richard on your screen. one of his books, his most recent is called "the third fly on government programs don't work and a blueprint for...
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so i pity all of us, really, all of us. i want to say the most important thing of all, it will be the most important thing i'll say all night, and thank you. everything i say after that will be straight downtown hill, and some of the specific thank yous to the end. we're here too talk about "fifth assassin." and people ask me where the book came from. no one gets crazeyear e-mail than me. no one gets more proof that abraham lincoln is gay than me. the last time i was at this store for the inner circle, someone brought me the holy grail, okay? is that guy here? is the -- i have to ask first. not here? then let's talk about him. here's what happens. i'm not dish promise you this is true. i was standing right of the and he comes top me early and says, brad, you want to see he holy grail? and he ah has crazy eyes and i'm like, you brought the holy grail to the barnes & noble, how i do not say yes? and in that aisle over there he takes out the holy grail if mean the holy grail. goes into this knapsack, pulls out the holy grail a
so i pity all of us, really, all of us. i want to say the most important thing of all, it will be the most important thing i'll say all night, and thank you. everything i say after that will be straight downtown hill, and some of the specific thank yous to the end. we're here too talk about "fifth assassin." and people ask me where the book came from. no one gets crazeyear e-mail than me. no one gets more proof that abraham lincoln is gay than me. the last time i was at this store for...
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this is the tactic he used. by doing that, not only do i take that away from him, it was interesting, if you watch the rest of the show after that interview. after i left, paralyzed in a gun shooting, and he started interviewing this kid because we can have discussions with folks who have been shot and try to we are all trying to figure out the best way to prevent people from being shot. we have good intentions here. it is disgusting they imply that we don't. this -- he brought the kid out between segments. first thing that ends, he saw him frantically in his your phone with the producer and they bring out boxes of sudafed to use as a horrible proper and they also bring out this kid and put him in the audience and it is pretty clear to me, maybe i wrong but it is clear to me they're planning to swivel camera around so after i make this argument they will slow pull the camera to the kid who has been paralyzed in the shooting to oppose the image of stark contrast, here is this young guy who is certainly healthy an
this is the tactic he used. by doing that, not only do i take that away from him, it was interesting, if you watch the rest of the show after that interview. after i left, paralyzed in a gun shooting, and he started interviewing this kid because we can have discussions with folks who have been shot and try to we are all trying to figure out the best way to prevent people from being shot. we have good intentions here. it is disgusting they imply that we don't. this -- he brought the kid out...
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it is used by all of us because nobody said to compensated for consumers. somebody said, i know how to make a living, i'm going to figure out to make a smaller and smaller. rand released a study this month that said that the $81 billion in savings we're going to get by making an investment in health i.t. produced no sales. too bad because the government put up $25 billion of the $40 billion investment. wide? why did a $40 billion investment giving everybody a box and saw for not producing savings? if you been to a hospital or doctor you can see in front of you, right? i mention i took my son for an appendectomy last month. we walked into the see the surgeon. he had a ruptured appendix, so fortunately i filled out the form for him but i don't know what he would've done if he was an adult at the surgeon said almost certainly a ruptured appendix. let's get a quick scan to confirm it. we went to the same hospital, for force down to get a scan. and we filled out the same seven-page form. before they would see him. we made the obvious point that we filled out the
it is used by all of us because nobody said to compensated for consumers. somebody said, i know how to make a living, i'm going to figure out to make a smaller and smaller. rand released a study this month that said that the $81 billion in savings we're going to get by making an investment in health i.t. produced no sales. too bad because the government put up $25 billion of the $40 billion investment. wide? why did a $40 billion investment giving everybody a box and saw for not producing...
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this document, which you can get if you like, doesn't use the word freedom, it doesn't use the word democracy, it doesn't mention the particular leaders and it doesn't talk about the regime types or radical islamic and certainly doesn't mengin wmd. it says instead, quote, access to the persian gulf oil is vital to national security interests, period. memories of hostages in iran destroy the barracks in beirut and that is reason enough to worry and this context matters understanding of the widespread reluctance to do more in response to the invasion. for saddam hussein didn't current-gen as i mentioned before that long-range destruction of oil. moreover, the middle east wasn't a particularly appealing place for those in american politics with a sense of short to medium and long-term history. tikrit sample the secretary of state, james baker, who at this point had advised presidents for decades or years excuse me, but had been one of his closest friends for decades. he was secretary of state, and upon hearing this news, contemplating it, getting back to washington, he wasn't in washington at th
this document, which you can get if you like, doesn't use the word freedom, it doesn't use the word democracy, it doesn't mention the particular leaders and it doesn't talk about the regime types or radical islamic and certainly doesn't mengin wmd. it says instead, quote, access to the persian gulf oil is vital to national security interests, period. memories of hostages in iran destroy the barracks in beirut and that is reason enough to worry and this context matters understanding of the...
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playing cards used to be blank on one side, you used to write your name on the other side to identify yourself. at the university of pennsylvania you could use them to get into class, that was your id was a playing card that was blank on one side. so my brain goes like this: you have a playing card that i can link now to john wilkes booth, and now i have a playing card that i can potentially link to the second assassin, charles giew toe, and now i have a thread. and i can weave that thread and pull it assassin to assassin. and, obviously, this is where the fiction takes over, but i start thinking about playing cards. hearts and diamonds and clubs and spades, we all know them. but they're symbols, and they mean something. they're not just there for decoration. you look at a dollar bill, it has a pyramid with an all-seeing eye on top, right? it's a symbol. they put it there for a reason. it doesn't mean that the free masons are there to eat your babies and kill you, right? but it does mean something. and it's the same with playing cards. and if you want to know what hearts and diamonds
playing cards used to be blank on one side, you used to write your name on the other side to identify yourself. at the university of pennsylvania you could use them to get into class, that was your id was a playing card that was blank on one side. so my brain goes like this: you have a playing card that i can link now to john wilkes booth, and now i have a playing card that i can potentially link to the second assassin, charles giew toe, and now i have a thread. and i can weave that thread and...
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[laughter] so just, i pity all of us really, all of us. um, i want to say the most important thing of all. it will be, i promise, the most important thing i will say tonight, and that is thank you. everything i say after that will be straight downhill, and i'll tell you, i'll save some of the specific thank yous for the end. what we're here to talk about is "the fifth assassin," and people always say where do you get your ideas for books? i'll tell you about this store. because of dakota, no one gets crazier mail than me. like, the last time i was at this store for the inner circle, someone brought me the holy grail, okay? is that guy here? is the guy -- i have to ask first. he's not here? then let's talk about him, okay? [laughter] here's what happens. i'm not joking you, i promise you this is true. i was standing over there, and he comes up to early, and he's like, brad, and i'm like, yeah, and he says do you want to see the holy grail? and he has the crazy eyes, and i'm like you brought the holy grail all the way to barnes & noble, how
[laughter] so just, i pity all of us really, all of us. um, i want to say the most important thing of all. it will be, i promise, the most important thing i will say tonight, and that is thank you. everything i say after that will be straight downhill, and i'll tell you, i'll save some of the specific thank yous for the end. what we're here to talk about is "the fifth assassin," and people always say where do you get your ideas for books? i'll tell you about this store. because of...
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we need a legal architecture for the use of the drones. israel has drones, hezbollah at least has one and they have the supply to them. what happens when russia starts using them in the soviet republics or china. >> too many things they do without thinking to the national missile defense. we could develop national missile defense. it doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down but they still pull the money into it every year because we can do it instead of having the missile defense and get serious about cutting back strategic offensive arms. they haven't been address to. there's a lot of if we have the control that clinton abolished because jesse helms made them nervous and they can address those things. the arms control lobby in the country was quite effective we don't see much of their activity anymore. >> they've been very successful after world war ii the difficulty in iraq and afghanistan. >> the party in afghanistan is the trying to do with the soviets try to do where they take a page out of the playbook which is you come in and try to b
we need a legal architecture for the use of the drones. israel has drones, hezbollah at least has one and they have the supply to them. what happens when russia starts using them in the soviet republics or china. >> too many things they do without thinking to the national missile defense. we could develop national missile defense. it doesn't seem to be slowing anyone down but they still pull the money into it every year because we can do it instead of having the missile defense and get...
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of us. but, of course, that's not true. when you that health care is impossibly complex for consumers, one of the things to remember is that nobody in health care can make money by making it easy for you. nobody. think about the computer. i don't understand anything about how any of my computers work. i've got a lot of them. i've got three phones, i've got laptops, i've got tablets, right? is not that into how they work but it's also not because there's one that is the clear superior computer that we all must have. it's, in fact, because of the opposite. this most impossibly complex thing on earth, this thing that was used only by nasa and the irs and ibm. is used by all of us because nobody said to complicated for consumers. somebody said i know how to make a living, i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller. rand released a study this month that said that the $81 billion in savings we were going to get by making an investment in health i.t. produced no savings. too bad bec
of us. but, of course, that's not true. when you that health care is impossibly complex for consumers, one of the things to remember is that nobody in health care can make money by making it easy for you. nobody. think about the computer. i don't understand anything about how any of my computers work. i've got a lot of them. i've got three phones, i've got laptops, i've got tablets, right? is not that into how they work but it's also not because there's one that is the clear superior computer...
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their arguments made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases such as tax cuts pay for themselves, climate change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work. they were repeated over and over again. republican arguments along these lines seemed incomprehensible to democrats just as ours seemed misguiding to them. the evidence that mattered to us made no difference to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information that we took every day from our constituents and the economists that we consulted. news media preoccupation with lack of civility missed the point. i traveled with republican members of congress to iraq and afghanistan and enjoyed their company. we worked out together in the house gym. still, more time socializing with each other would not have closed the chasm between our competing views of the world and the role of government. it's those world views and the lack of come prehence -- comprehension on both sides that cripple the capacity of congress to make bipartis
their arguments made no sense to us. such well-worn phrases such as tax cuts pay for themselves, climate change is improving and government-run health care doesn't work. they were repeated over and over again. republican arguments along these lines seemed incomprehensible to democrats just as ours seemed misguiding to them. the evidence that mattered to us made no difference to them. the free market principles they took as given conflicted with the information that we took every day from our...
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if the clan was not after us or the police, but that somebody would see us here, who would report it to his father who would lose customers because word got out. it's never about anybody else, but me. it imprisoned everyone in a circle of fear, and every breath you take is lifted by the fact that reality is no longer there, but those are the things we take for granted. those are the things we take for granted, not just across racial relations, but in the fact that we are the sun belt now. we have professional sports teams in the soit that we couldn't have when we were segregated. my dear mayor ivan allen said as soon as the bill was passed, atlanta built a stadium for a team they didn't have, on ground they didn't have, and it got the braves to move here and become the first professional sports team in the south. dr. king said that when negroes, the term then, liberated themselves from segregation because it was right and because it we want to the core premises of equal soles and equal votes to the core of the constitution and the core of the scriptures, it would liberate, and psycho
if the clan was not after us or the police, but that somebody would see us here, who would report it to his father who would lose customers because word got out. it's never about anybody else, but me. it imprisoned everyone in a circle of fear, and every breath you take is lifted by the fact that reality is no longer there, but those are the things we take for granted. those are the things we take for granted, not just across racial relations, but in the fact that we are the sun belt now. we...
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a lot of us thought that obama would address of this, and he is not. you know, guantanamo remains open, but if someone has written an op-ed in the new york times, the people at guantanamo are really better off than if there were brought to the united states to serve in prisons here in this country, given what has happened to guantanamo because of human rights watch and the red cross keeping an eye on things. this tremendous anger throughout the middle east and north africa , and that is why americans take a certain amount of risk when they serve overseas and what has just happened in algeria is just another reminder of the peril. all of that is within the context of activity that has been taking place for the last ten years. again, it is about the overuse, i think, of military violence. we have a situation right now with regard to the drones. we need a legal architecture for use of the drones. resetting an incredible precedent. israel has drones. hezbollah has at least one from that overflew israel. what happens when russia starts using them against fo
a lot of us thought that obama would address of this, and he is not. you know, guantanamo remains open, but if someone has written an op-ed in the new york times, the people at guantanamo are really better off than if there were brought to the united states to serve in prisons here in this country, given what has happened to guantanamo because of human rights watch and the red cross keeping an eye on things. this tremendous anger throughout the middle east and north africa , and that is why...
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strength across lines that divide us. it's not new that we remember our history that race relations are involved. i think that we should be ashamed of doing it both on the left and the right that we don't do it, and if you're interested in why, i've mentioned george wallace, i can also, people in the civil rights movement turned against a lot of their own examples. number one, nine violence. nonviolence became in popular among people in the civil rights movement. the most powerful idea was the first one that was abandoned and there are a lot of other pashtun religious. the left turned against religious. when it was half of the movement inspiration and half of dr. king's magnificent formula of equal souls and equal votes, one foot in the scriptures, one foot in the constitution. than the next thing you know people are turning against the spiritual base of democracy. we must remember the civil war for centuries, when our growing up in atlantic of my textbooks in the civil war had nothing to do with slavery and we got a lot
strength across lines that divide us. it's not new that we remember our history that race relations are involved. i think that we should be ashamed of doing it both on the left and the right that we don't do it, and if you're interested in why, i've mentioned george wallace, i can also, people in the civil rights movement turned against a lot of their own examples. number one, nine violence. nonviolence became in popular among people in the civil rights movement. the most powerful idea was the...
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the course of a lifetime and what her legacy asks of us now. who was rosa parks before the boycott? she had a life history of being rebellious as she put it. she was raised by her mother and grandparents who taught her to stand up for herself. grandfather was a follower of martha starving. there was no education provided black children past 6 grade so great sacrifice her mother sent her to midwife school for girls in montgomery. roselle was reserved girl. a bit of a goody 2 shoes her friends 5, who followed this will's prohibitions against dancing, movies, makeup and short hair. but she had a feisty side. when she and her brother were threatened by a white boule, she picked up a brick and threatened to hit him. he ducked. when a young boy pushed her in front of his mother she pushed back. when the mother threatened to kill her, she said he pushed me and i didn't want him pushing me. parks fell in love with raymond parks in 1931, the first real activist i ever met, she said. when they married raymond parks was working to free the nine scottsboro
the course of a lifetime and what her legacy asks of us now. who was rosa parks before the boycott? she had a life history of being rebellious as she put it. she was raised by her mother and grandparents who taught her to stand up for herself. grandfather was a follower of martha starving. there was no education provided black children past 6 grade so great sacrifice her mother sent her to midwife school for girls in montgomery. roselle was reserved girl. a bit of a goody 2 shoes her friends 5,...
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it's used by all of us because nobody said it is too complicated for consumers. somebody said i don't know how to make a living. i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller more than the other stops. we released a study this month that said the $81 billion in savings we were going to make by having an investment produced no savings. it's too bad because the government put $25,000,000.40 billion investment why would they not produce any savings? if you've been to the hospital or doctor that you can see in front of you i filled out the form for him, nobody would have done if he wasn't an adult, the surgeon matej said almost certainly iraq to the pimex let's get a scam on him to confirm that. we felt the same seven page form we felt the same 15 minutes before but i know you've all been through it. we went to the emergency room where just for fun while they were waiting for a room i said if i were to pay for this with cash what would happen? it was the equivalent of saying i have a bomb strapped to my chest and i am going to blow up the hospital unless
it's used by all of us because nobody said it is too complicated for consumers. somebody said i don't know how to make a living. i'm going to figure out how to make it smaller and smaller more than the other stops. we released a study this month that said the $81 billion in savings we were going to make by having an investment produced no savings. it's too bad because the government put $25,000,000.40 billion investment why would they not produce any savings? if you've been to the hospital or...
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sometimes used well it can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it's used as an evasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there's no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i'm wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it's leading some people to think that we might be there for oil or minerals or even the heroin trade, for that matter. and -- >> heroin trade? >> so i'm really concerned about this. >> well, no, you raise a good point. world war ii is, actually, in the annals of military history since and going way back, world war ii is kind of an anomaly. there really haven't been a lot of wars in history that lead to the total surrender of the enemy. most wars, and particularly the kinds of wars that we're getting involved in now, you know, rightly or wrongly end with some kind of negotiation or some kind of division of power or some new power arrangement between, you know, some kind of coalition. and so it is uncomfortab
sometimes used well it can be a useful tool, but i think more often than not it's used as an evasion. >> thank you. the united states has not won a war since 1945. this combat looks an awful lot like vietnam. there's no difference between the republicans and the democrats except ron paul. i'm wondering, are we ever going to see the united states completely pull out of the mideast? it's leading some people to think that we might be there for oil or minerals or even the heroin trade, for...
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/booktv or follow us on twitter @booktv. you can also visit our website, booktv.org, and click on news about books. you're watching c-span2, politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. weeknights what's key public policy events in every weekend the lettuce nonfiction authors and books on book tv. you can see past programs and their schedules that our website at, and you could join in the conversation on social media sites. and now, taylor branch, author of the multi it volume of america in the king year's presents his thoughts on key moments in the civil rights movement. this is about an hour 15 spirited. >> thank you, mr. hale. thank you, atlanta. atlanta history center. i have been heretofore. and glad to be back. i am glad to be back talking about something that has been a subject that has been due to me my whole life and is inescapable now . i'm getting older, is my life's work a lamb glad for it. this is another round. i beg to take more questions tonight than i normally do. i am goi
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had occasion survey had to use anonymous resource name. but there are people such as michael german or former agents who are openly critical of these programs and do not believe in their efficacy. >> you've also gotten some criticism since the book came out, including today in the review in "the wall street journal" from people saying you've got this all wrong. this is pretty much fun for us and it has to prevent another 9/11. >> a former fbi agent put it critical review of the book in "the wall street journal." what is criticism hinges on includes john miller, assistant director of the fbi. and i criticized were coming to consistently talk about real terrorists. they mentioned faisal shaddai, the shoe bomber and the so-called dirty bomber. you got this wrong and are really there. i'm not disputing the fact you're a terrorist. i'm not defeating the fact that someone came very close to bombing the subway system. but where i think they go finest examples of these are examples of cases that never came on the radar through sting operations. in
had occasion survey had to use anonymous resource name. but there are people such as michael german or former agents who are openly critical of these programs and do not believe in their efficacy. >> you've also gotten some criticism since the book came out, including today in the review in "the wall street journal" from people saying you've got this all wrong. this is pretty much fun for us and it has to prevent another 9/11. >> a former fbi agent put it critical review...
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>> guest: jesse helme used to send me birthday cards. he had strom thurmond used to send them all the time. ronald reagan, deal the action i had with him within the senator's thoughts are a congress they are invited me to come in. he seemed like a very affable, personal guy. sunny personality and all the rest, but the least amusing thing for me as he told the press when he fired me in the press asked him why. a reporter came back and told me she stares at my pleasure and she's not getting any pleasure in the press got a big laugh out of that one. >> host: what was your reaction? >> guest: that was almost as bad as the guy in the bush administration and the justice department supposedly said he liked his coffee like mary frances berry, black and bitter. but reagan was better. i served at his pleasure, not getting him very much pleasure. the court was brought into evidence when i sued right and in the court says, that among other things, the president doesn't fire people in an independent agency who are watchdogging had because they're not
>> guest: jesse helme used to send me birthday cards. he had strom thurmond used to send them all the time. ronald reagan, deal the action i had with him within the senator's thoughts are a congress they are invited me to come in. he seemed like a very affable, personal guy. sunny personality and all the rest, but the least amusing thing for me as he told the press when he fired me in the press asked him why. a reporter came back and told me she stares at my pleasure and she's not getting...
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although some of the early uses when you go back and track when it starts being used in the '20s more and more often and replacing the word "framers," it was up used as a negative. the founding fathers never meant for us to have pastel-colored postage stamps or never meant for us to help poorer nations at the time of war. it was used as sort of giving these people who framed the constitution sort of a collective veto on certain things. and it was an interesting use of language. and then i got fascinated with harding because harding's misuse of the language was so intense that warren g. harding -- i mean, h.l. mepgen crutted a term which was a description of how badly harding murdered the language. but harding had an interesting ability to create words like bloviate meaning to, what i'm doing right now -- [laughter] orate, you know, pompously. but he also, it was also his way, he picked up a very old word that had really no use at all except in chemistry which was normalcy. normalcy had existed before in chemistry for a state of normality, but it was during the 1920 front porch campaig
although some of the early uses when you go back and track when it starts being used in the '20s more and more often and replacing the word "framers," it was up used as a negative. the founding fathers never meant for us to have pastel-colored postage stamps or never meant for us to help poorer nations at the time of war. it was used as sort of giving these people who framed the constitution sort of a collective veto on certain things. and it was an interesting use of language. and...
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people would use the sign to identify themselves. attempt to break the boycott and the carvel people were often pelted with food, stones, urine and other things, the police continually pullover the carpoolers on real and imaginary violations. the white citizens council membership explodes, 14,000 members in the boycott the may year and the police commissioner jul and and then in february using an old book they indict 89 of the boycott leaders but instead of the organization this just further strengthens the result. rosa parks in much of that year is fund-raising. raising money and attention for the montgomery improvement association and the naacp. even though her own family is in serious financial trouble. she loses her job about a month into the boycott. she is working as an assistant tayler at montgomery and then her husband is a barber at the air force base and they say -- they were forbid any talk of the boycott or "that blumenauer" and for a prada political man that is an untenable situation. so he also loses his job, so they ar
people would use the sign to identify themselves. attempt to break the boycott and the carvel people were often pelted with food, stones, urine and other things, the police continually pullover the carpoolers on real and imaginary violations. the white citizens council membership explodes, 14,000 members in the boycott the may year and the police commissioner jul and and then in february using an old book they indict 89 of the boycott leaders but instead of the organization this just further...
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like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch videos and get up-to-date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. >> good morning. good morning, thank you. yeah, i moved up my flight and am going to dash to the airport right after, literally right after i spend about 10 minutes here reading. i'm going to read something quite short on the theory that less is more, which is what i tried to tell my writing students and speaking of them, i have, one of the reasons i am hurtling back to cold philadelphia is because they have hold office hours tomorrow with a lovely little iv brats. [laughter] so i best get home and sleep well, or try to sleep welcome all the my wife and i say we haven't slept well since the jimmy carter administration. [laughter] thank you so much and what our logistic am holding up come you holding us out. i think that's the key. and i bet i won't even have time to formally say thank you and goodbye to miles, so i will just, i want to say to miles how eloquent his little say what introduction, and tell him go
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you don't want to be spending a lot of money for results deal neither country in that quadra and with us was luxembourg. i have no idea what they're doing. the problem is for decades now people have been pushing the idea to fix the system is more money more many more money. but i knew firsthand that was not the case weavers' spending more money than any of your jurisdiction yet results were at the bottom with districts right across the river in newark, new jersey spending $22,000 per kid yet operating with the full proficiency in the single digits so to throw more money into a broken system with a different result is faulty. we have to have the transparency where the dollars are going to stop spending money on things that have no impact on kids. when i was in washington d.c. the had a digit of $1 billion per year. of that, a 403, 403 million went into the schools so the majority of the money went into a bloated bureaucracy. that is not where you have the impact it has the impact in the classroom not from the district itself salt and tell lee should delight current and what kind of return
you don't want to be spending a lot of money for results deal neither country in that quadra and with us was luxembourg. i have no idea what they're doing. the problem is for decades now people have been pushing the idea to fix the system is more money more many more money. but i knew firsthand that was not the case weavers' spending more money than any of your jurisdiction yet results were at the bottom with districts right across the river in newark, new jersey spending $22,000 per kid yet...
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[applause] the michelle rhee we thank you for joining us and we know you had some busy-- pierce morgan, head john stuart, as cnn and we have our old friend here from c-span filming this event so people from the united states can benefit from what you have to say. just to kickstart how did you come up with a fascinating and interesting book "radical" and where does the name come from? >> guest: i think the genesis of the name is interesting that when i first got to d.c. fellow was performing in the most defunct glad -- dysfunctional district in the nation that was a widely known truce. i did things that i thought were obvious for school districts in that state, a closing low performing schools, moving out in the affected employees, cutting the bureaucracy in half and as i was taking these steps people started to say she is a firebrand, a radical, a controversial and i thought really? finally i said if reconnaissance to a dysfunctional system makes me a radical then i am okay without. that was embracing that concept for the name of the book. >> host: some people call you anti-teacher but
[applause] the michelle rhee we thank you for joining us and we know you had some busy-- pierce morgan, head john stuart, as cnn and we have our old friend here from c-span filming this event so people from the united states can benefit from what you have to say. just to kickstart how did you come up with a fascinating and interesting book "radical" and where does the name come from? >> guest: i think the genesis of the name is interesting that when i first got to d.c. fellow...
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the leverage that the church uses used to be there were children in scientology. they used to be on board ships. they cause a lot of trouble. and hubbard have a theory that children are not different from adults, they are just small. and, therefore, they should be treated as you would treat an adult, and so when a child misbehaved, he came up with one of his punishment was to put them in the chain locker. that's where the anchor chain is stored, and it's cold and dark and dank. and they would be fed but they were not allowed out to go to the bathroom or go to sleep or anything. just put in there for days and some of them for weeks. he actually put -- a deaf girl in the hopes she would regain her hearing. so the treatment of children became huge issue early on and finally, it was decided we can't have them. we can't have kids here because they had a ranch were children, and the children essentially built their own dormitories and gave themselves going and so on. very, very little adult supervision. so it came to pass that the decision was made no more kids, which m
the leverage that the church uses used to be there were children in scientology. they used to be on board ships. they cause a lot of trouble. and hubbard have a theory that children are not different from adults, they are just small. and, therefore, they should be treated as you would treat an adult, and so when a child misbehaved, he came up with one of his punishment was to put them in the chain locker. that's where the anchor chain is stored, and it's cold and dark and dank. and they would...
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that is what's used for her devotion. she liked to read books by religious leaders, which were very interesting. they were so far from the i am so much better than you are type above. it would be let's look at the bigger picture, certain things that we all have in common, and certainly, she was a very tolerant person. some of the books she liked or gothic -- they were gothic romance. those were books that had pretty racy storylines. we know that she read them because her granddaughter said she did. and she liked them. and in fact, i do believe that the plantation was named for one of the states in the book. we see it in her life as well. the kind of loyalty and non-judgmental mess. nathaniel greene was one of george washington's favorites. he was the general that he could count on to be loyal, to do what he said, to move fast when he needed to move fast. to hold still when he needed to hold still. washington was very fond of his wife, who is a very young and flighty and foolish quarrel. she loved to dance. she loves to fl
that is what's used for her devotion. she liked to read books by religious leaders, which were very interesting. they were so far from the i am so much better than you are type above. it would be let's look at the bigger picture, certain things that we all have in common, and certainly, she was a very tolerant person. some of the books she liked or gothic -- they were gothic romance. those were books that had pretty racy storylines. we know that she read them because her granddaughter said she...
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thank you for being with us live. if you are in c-span or highland park figure for joining us and those who came to be a part of us as well. also your publishers and your support helps the public bringing great authors like this. >> this bookstore which i discovered a few years ago is a national treasure and enormously important. i am thrilled we got to do this here. >> you heard gramm smith was here for abraham lincoln vampire hunter andrews said i need to follow that up. >> that is where i got the idea to launch here. [laughter] >> i think the staff and without you we could not make these shows success to. [applause] >> thank you very much it is the pleasure to be here, i am honored to deliver the lecture. my greatest books, i have to confess it is my only book. [laughter] i spent 30 years going to saudi arabia as day editor talking to officials about oil, iraq, iran, u.s., geopo litical issues. when i return all -- retired from the "journal" one thing i was interested in doing with my new found time was trying to u
thank you for being with us live. if you are in c-span or highland park figure for joining us and those who came to be a part of us as well. also your publishers and your support helps the public bringing great authors like this. >> this bookstore which i discovered a few years ago is a national treasure and enormously important. i am thrilled we got to do this here. >> you heard gramm smith was here for abraham lincoln vampire hunter andrews said i need to follow that up. >>...
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i've used a hatchet to blaze a trail so he would know how to get back. this is who lincoln has to go up against. [laughter] he is actually very successful. he has the biggest majority in the district, bigger than baker's majority and hardin's majority, now he has a gear and half until he is sworn in. so he continues to go to court, he continues to try these cases and handle cases. the last case that he handles before he heads to washington is a slave case. this is going to be very important when we see where the wilderness act. so there was a slave in the illinois courts, she was trying to bring him back to kentucky. his entire life he is exposed to slavery. he was born in kentucky, which was basically america's first highly if this is something that is very familiar to him. he sees the biggest slave market in north america and he sees the brutality of of slavery and he wishes it would end, but he also recognizes that there are laws in place. and so he represented mr. madsen. you would never see something like this from lincoln after he leaves congress.
i've used a hatchet to blaze a trail so he would know how to get back. this is who lincoln has to go up against. [laughter] he is actually very successful. he has the biggest majority in the district, bigger than baker's majority and hardin's majority, now he has a gear and half until he is sworn in. so he continues to go to court, he continues to try these cases and handle cases. the last case that he handles before he heads to washington is a slave case. this is going to be very important...
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it wasn't the rest of the world doing it to us. it was us doing it to the rest of the world, and that's my answer. if steve was here to why i didn't blame these international trade imbalances for the crisis. >> my name is can be and i'm -- my name is ken and i'm an economist. >> as opposed to an ordinary person. >> that's what i'm sometimes told. let me offer a hypothesis for your comment. at the time that the obama administration was trying to determine the size they for the deficit for the stimulus package there were expectations if they didn't do anything the amount of gdp decline would be at a certain level. in fact, however, the trajectory was far, far steeper, and, therefore, a primary criticism of the stimulus package is not that it was too large but it was too small. >> i half agree with that and let me explain. the agree part is -- let me just put on my economist hat because that's what i am. if you look at the perils facing us and what had happened already, what was likely to happen, a larger fiscal stimulus was called fo
it wasn't the rest of the world doing it to us. it was us doing it to the rest of the world, and that's my answer. if steve was here to why i didn't blame these international trade imbalances for the crisis. >> my name is can be and i'm -- my name is ken and i'm an economist. >> as opposed to an ordinary person. >> that's what i'm sometimes told. let me offer a hypothesis for your comment. at the time that the obama administration was trying to determine the size they for the...
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you hold us up. that is the key five that i won't have time to formally say thank-you and a good buy a 2 miles so i will just day how eloquent his little segue introductions have been and tells all the rest of you for coming and i am supposed to read something. i was fretting about what that would be. i will of reid from the end of the prologue. with of the things i was trying to use stress in the talks that i gave yesterday and the panel from the day before it is for all of the undeniable, appalling, and a dark side of ernest hemingway there is also the light, a bone of generosity and sometimes it came out best not his own child necessarily but who would not responded to do that? piece seemed kahane to respond to it a special way i was thinking of reading a key west passage. know that would be like a piece of coal to newcastle. so i will just read this little moment from the end of the prologue and indeed the end of ernest hemingway's life, when everything is lost, but there is still something there
you hold us up. that is the key five that i won't have time to formally say thank-you and a good buy a 2 miles so i will just day how eloquent his little segue introductions have been and tells all the rest of you for coming and i am supposed to read something. i was fretting about what that would be. i will of reid from the end of the prologue. with of the things i was trying to use stress in the talks that i gave yesterday and the panel from the day before it is for all of the undeniable,...
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like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. watch video and get up to date information on events. facebook.com/booktv. here's a look at the upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. please let us know about book fairs in your area. post them at facebook.com/booktv. or e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. >>> arthur goes on trial of december of 1835. he's eager to win a conviction. by this time mrs. thornton has come forward and come to the defense of her allegedly asal i can't. she said in the trial that arthur never lifted the action. ax. she felt safe in his presence. that he was just drunk and that she wanted the whole thing to go away. he was in plaqueble. he didn't listen. he managed to get other people to override the testimony. arthur is convicted and there's only oneishment for that, which is the death penalty. capital punishment. and so arthur bowen goes on to death row, and in january of 1836 sentenced to die in a month. and so with the clock ticking mrs. thornton does something even more unbelievable. i
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he was using the services of a professional woman. if you imagine lincoln upstairs trying to mind his own business, we can basically says, have to have a woman. and here is what appears to have happened. it appears that he asked for a letter of introduction. but we have pieced together is maybe $3 difference, which is a lot of money. and the prostitute currently charges them $5. which was an enormous amount money. once she said you could pay me later where this depends, she ran out the door. in this case, there is not a happy ending. even with abraham lincoln. what i thought i would do in the main body of my remarks is tell a couple of my favorite stories. more importantly about presidential character. many involve our 24th and important president, grover cleveland. he fathered a child out of wedlock. she might have been a prostitute. cleveland was a bachelor. fathering a child seem like the thing to do at a time. a group of very righteous preachers started a campaign that no woman in the country would not pay attention here. it becam
he was using the services of a professional woman. if you imagine lincoln upstairs trying to mind his own business, we can basically says, have to have a woman. and here is what appears to have happened. it appears that he asked for a letter of introduction. but we have pieced together is maybe $3 difference, which is a lot of money. and the prostitute currently charges them $5. which was an enormous amount money. once she said you could pay me later where this depends, she ran out the door. in...
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we're honored to have you with us. organizing this conference with 25 different sessions is really quite a lot of work, so i want to be gained by thinking the organizers of the congress for all they've done. i work with a top-flight team in the office of the chief economist. i particularly want to thank our chief economist, joe glauber and of course all the great the work they've done. they plan to very full days. i know we are going to learn a lot. along with the traditional commodity and food price outlooks, this year's program emphasizes the many ways agriculture must manage risk from finances to natural resources to transportation. one of the things i'm really excited about in this particular program this year is more time spent on certain vegetables, which are increasing importance in american agriculture and diet and we see them center stage in the sears outlook and that that futuristic thing. i also really excited to be here becaus h
we're honored to have you with us. organizing this conference with 25 different sessions is really quite a lot of work, so i want to be gained by thinking the organizers of the congress for all they've done. i work with a top-flight team in the office of the chief economist. i particularly want to thank our chief economist, joe glauber and of course all the great the work they've done. they plan to very full days. i know we are going to learn a lot. along with the traditional commodity and food...
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they come to our court looking to meet with us and talk to us and to each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i travel to law school. but i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about helen so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with people i can get them to understand our legal system below the better i hope that they become better citizens , more active citizens working in the community and improving for everyone. so we are busy on lots of different levels, not just being in the courtroom. the hours that lawyers have argued cases before us, it is a microcosm of the work that we put into it. >> the most popular question submitted was how did the justices get a long? [laughter] now, i know that relations among you all are deeply collegial, so i am wondering, what other conference rituals and the ways you all build relationships? >> its starts with respect. if you comment to this process appreciating that every single justice on the court has a passion and a love for the constitution and our country that is equal to mine menino that if you accept that as
they come to our court looking to meet with us and talk to us and to each of us to learn from each other. and i travel. i travel to law school. but i want to reach out and teach people about the law and about helen so passionate about what i do. if in one meeting with people i can get them to understand our legal system below the better i hope that they become better citizens , more active citizens working in the community and improving for everyone. so we are busy on lots of different levels,...
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if not us? so we've got to begin somewhere, and so i encourage you to check out my web site for a list of organizations and resources, um, think about forming your own student organization here and then, also, get together with like-minded souls and think seriously about what kinds of organizations need to be built, perhaps, you know, in your own community to do the work that lies ahead. so thank you for your question. >> thank you. >> yes, um, i would just like to thank you for your presentation. it was very insightful. the question i would like to ask is that, um, overall typically when many young persons are arrested for drugs, they tend to level a lot of charges against them. one such charge which is very difficult to beat is conspiracy. >> uh-huh. yes. >> conspiracy to sell drugs. and a barber of mine in jamaica who was deported told me that conspiracy is one of the hard charges to beat. what sort of solutions do you propose to -- i don't know if to remove such a charge from the book? becau
if not us? so we've got to begin somewhere, and so i encourage you to check out my web site for a list of organizations and resources, um, think about forming your own student organization here and then, also, get together with like-minded souls and think seriously about what kinds of organizations need to be built, perhaps, you know, in your own community to do the work that lies ahead. so thank you for your question. >> thank you. >> yes, um, i would just like to thank you for...
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at one dairy described with great exuberance the naval battle using wine glasses and decanters to show the position of the ships and blowing smoke from his cigar to imitate the cannon fire. it would have been wonderful to have been there. the topic at churchill's table were wide-ranging, and cold, exploding harbors, movies, that hamilton woman was a great favorite of churchill's, and politics. his curiosity was boundless. many of his guests wrote to friends or recorded in their diaries his conversations, repeated his anecdotes and commented on the foodie served. in addition i found hundreds of bills for dinner she gave at hundred hotels, the ritz, guest lists, amended wine lists, many letters from churchill complaining about overbilling, banking his friends for gifts of food and wine, ringing generous tips for hotel waiters call in the archives, all set out in my book. i have produced many of the menus in my book in case any of you want to try to duplicate one or two of them at a special party at home. the wine list might be harder for you to replicate since so many decades have passed
at one dairy described with great exuberance the naval battle using wine glasses and decanters to show the position of the ships and blowing smoke from his cigar to imitate the cannon fire. it would have been wonderful to have been there. the topic at churchill's table were wide-ranging, and cold, exploding harbors, movies, that hamilton woman was a great favorite of churchill's, and politics. his curiosity was boundless. many of his guests wrote to friends or recorded in their diaries his...
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thank you for joining us. [applause] i am excited that mayor denise parker and -- are here with us tonight. [applause] denise parker is one of my heroes, one of my favorite people and a touristic mayor. please stand mayor and first lady cathy. [applause] you can see past presentations of the progressive forum on our web site, great minds such as jane goodall, richard leahy, bill moyers and supreme court justice john paul stevens. go to our web site at progressive form houston.org. that is progressive forum houston.org. we are pleased to give a book to every attendee tonight. just show your ticket in the distribution table in the grand foyer. additional books are also on sale in the grand foyer by the bookshop. after justice sotomayor's presentation presentations you would join me for a q&a. i should say a supreme court rules don't allow us to discuss court cases of the past, present or future but we will delve deeply into her fascinating story. justice sotomayor will sign books, and greet fans in the grand foy
thank you for joining us. [applause] i am excited that mayor denise parker and -- are here with us tonight. [applause] denise parker is one of my heroes, one of my favorite people and a touristic mayor. please stand mayor and first lady cathy. [applause] you can see past presentations of the progressive forum on our web site, great minds such as jane goodall, richard leahy, bill moyers and supreme court justice john paul stevens. go to our web site at progressive form houston.org. that is...
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they tell what was useful for the boat, what they call chapter history. the remaining members of the chapters that can't talk about work they didn't create a collective account and memories if you do in a historical work very piecemeal. was interesting about the chapter history as one person was saying remember this in the other person to fill in for corrected with these sorts of things. there's also lots of young people. there were scholars like myself, also young people interested and were activists who are interested in legacy of the parties. so it's a very eclectic dynamic, interesting setting. postcodes do we need and bobby seale is still alive? >> guest: kiwi is deceased. he was killed in the 1980s. bobby seale is it best today, still speaking about the black panthers were on a regular basis. >> host: and why did the body disband? >> guest: several reasons. one was the fbi's counterintelligence programs, which was quite successful in doing a few things. installing provocateurs within the party that created some discord that exists now in the party b
they tell what was useful for the boat, what they call chapter history. the remaining members of the chapters that can't talk about work they didn't create a collective account and memories if you do in a historical work very piecemeal. was interesting about the chapter history as one person was saying remember this in the other person to fill in for corrected with these sorts of things. there's also lots of young people. there were scholars like myself, also young people interested and were...
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you can't tweet us at booktv, comment on facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> the intense discussions, arguments within "national review" that i alluded to were primarily not totally but primarily in the '60s as they were still think that way your the conservative movement was still jelling. in the 1970s, russia's focus is on, it initially on the possibility of actually replacing the republican party with a new conservative party. i found a letter in which he said to a friend my problem, about 1975, my problem with the republican party isn't that it's not conservative enough. it's that it isn't big enough. again, he wanted to win. and republicans after watergate in the mid '70s were just in terrible shape. i won't recite the details but, you know, a lot of them probably felt they were back where they were back in the 1930s. not only minority part but a small minority part. russia wants to take this opportunity to start a new conservative party. not rigidly conservative but consciously conservative. one in which
you can't tweet us at booktv, comment on facebook wall, or send us an e-mail. tv, nonfiction books every weekend on c-span2. >> the intense discussions, arguments within "national review" that i alluded to were primarily not totally but primarily in the '60s as they were still think that way your the conservative movement was still jelling. in the 1970s, russia's focus is on, it initially on the possibility of actually replacing the republican party with a new conservative...
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can you give us a couple of examples? it is so mind-boggling. >> people do not realize how bad it dodd-frank is. it is a very conscious attitude by status to take this over. if you want to control an economy, control the capital. the way to do it safely is to do it in the bathroom. if you can blame somebody else, it's a great way to do it. [inaudible] they hadn't made any big moves yet. the government can also stop allocation. they control capital ratios we had to have kappas much capital. that is exactly what they want, green energy. they can subsidize it by having the social purposes, whatever that means. today is a mechanism where they can control allocations in the united states. they have also set up this, where we are going to have massive consolidation. the regulatory cost structure is frustrating. it makes you angry. but you can do it. you have to think about things that are productive and running a business and making the bureaucrats happy. to me, it is basically part of the community every day. the micromanageme
can you give us a couple of examples? it is so mind-boggling. >> people do not realize how bad it dodd-frank is. it is a very conscious attitude by status to take this over. if you want to control an economy, control the capital. the way to do it safely is to do it in the bathroom. if you can blame somebody else, it's a great way to do it. [inaudible] they hadn't made any big moves yet. the government can also stop allocation. they control capital ratios we had to have kappas much...
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the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to try and reduce the scope of intervention in real terms is in many respects at a severe electoral disadvantage. at luxembourg's prime minister jean-claude junker famously lamented in 2007, quote, we all know what we have to do, but we don't know how to get reelected once we have done it, end quote. in other words, if enough people in a democracy what security through the state regardless of cost, capacity politicians to oppose desires of 51% of the population is very limited. because to resist is to court electoral rejection rsp sta
the end result shouldn't surprise us. it's this spiral of expanding that, welfare, regulation that politicians at the expanding welfare beneficiaries have any desire to stop insulting skits about that there's no alternative. but there's a political problem because unfortunately in democracies in which many people see the state as the primary provider of economic security, meaningful restraint of government intervention and spend name is very politically difficult. why? is anyone who promises to...
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send us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, john allison argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 claps and says that to improve the economy, we need to opt pure free-market policies. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to congratulate heritage on the success that they have had. we did it. this is a pattern we have going forward and the purpose is to talk about my book, which is "the financial crisis and the free market cure." people ask me my i wrote the book. the basic answer is i thought it would be interesting to have somebody who knew what he was talking about write about thinking. because if you look to the academics to some degree, they don't know what they are talking about. [laughter] i think it's very important to undo a myth. these myths become destructive. the method they created is that it was caused by the deregulation on wall street. welcome to the simple fact is that this was not deregulated. we have the privacy act and
send us an e-mail at the tv at c-span.org or tweak us at twitter.com/booktv. now on booktv, john allison argues that government incentives and regulation caused the 2008 claps and says that to improve the economy, we need to opt pure free-market policies. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be here. i would like to congratulate heritage on the success that they have had. we did it. this is a pattern we have going forward and the purpose is to talk about my...
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how do they look at us? and as i speak about saudi arabia, everyone constantly asks me, why did you do that? why did you spend five years month after month going there? dressed in my long black -- my editor asked me that actually when i turned in the manuscript. she said, you know, why did you do this? and i said, because it's interesting that and she said, harris is interesting. interesting. [laughter] so why did you do this? you know, make me understand. that was her only editing going on the book. so i will try to make you understand why i found it both fascinating and important. saudi arabia is probably the strangest country you will never see. it is so different from our own. a woman and there never reaches the age of maturity. she is always under the control of some man. she cannot go to her son's school. she cannot even see her son graduate. she obviously doesn't drive. we all know that. she doesn't appear in public without being covered. and you know, when the worst situation, she is simply chattel f
how do they look at us? and as i speak about saudi arabia, everyone constantly asks me, why did you do that? why did you spend five years month after month going there? dressed in my long black -- my editor asked me that actually when i turned in the manuscript. she said, you know, why did you do this? and i said, because it's interesting that and she said, harris is interesting. interesting. [laughter] so why did you do this? you know, make me understand. that was her only editing going on the...